William Booth married Elizabeth M. Broomall in 1841. Their son, George M. Booth, was born in 1851 and married Ellen Miller,
daughter of Lewis and Ann McIlvaine Miller in 1876. Their daughter, Elizabeth Martin Booth, married Robert Emerson Lamb of
Baltimore in 1908 at Chester, Pa. The collection contains correspondence (1821-1963), diaries and journals (1833-1905), albums,
legal and financial papers, photographs, genealogical and biographical materials, and miscellaneous memorabilia of the Lamb,
Booth, Miller, and related families primarily of Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Includes correspondence of Sarah B. Miller
while she was travelling in Europe in 1846, William and Elizabeth M. Booth, 1833-1882, Sarah B. Flitcraft, 1856-1917, Isaac
L. and Clara B. Miller, 1862-1916, George M. and Ellen M. Booth, 1864-1914, Robert E. and Elizabeth B. Lamb, James G. Lamb,
1917 - 1963, and others. Also of interest are the European travel journals of Sarah L. Miller (1846) and Isaac L. and Clara
B. Miller (1901,1904,1905), and the diaries of William Booth (1833-39, 1843-44), Sarah B. Flitcraft (1863, 1864, 1866, 1868),
and George M. and Ellen M. Booth (1869, 1873, 1876). There is also a good deal of genealogical and biographical material on
the Lamb, Booth, and Miller families, including marriage and death certificates, as well as legal documents, photographs,
clippings, and miscellaneous materials.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL
William Booth married Elizabeth M. Broomall in 1841. Their son, George M. Booth, was born in 1851 and married Ellen Miller,
daughter of Lewis and Ann McIlvaine Miller in 1876. Their daughter, Elizabeth Martin Booth, married Robert Emerson Lamb of
Baltimore in 1908 at Chester, Pennsylvania.

This large family had many close ties to Swarthmore College. At least seven members of the families served on the Board of
Managers of the College, from three generations, starting in the 1860's. At least 24 members of these families were attenders
or graduates of the College, starting with the first graduating class. They have been educators, bankers, lawyers, businessmen,
farmers, and members of many civic and reform organizations. They were descendants of many of the earliest settlers of Delaware
and Chester Counties, and of New Castle Co., Delaware, as well as the early Roberts family of Evasham and Moorestown, New
Jersey, and the Lamb family who settled in Kent Co., Maryland, in the middle 1600's.

Scope and content

SCOPE AND CONTENT
The collection contains correspondence (1821-1963), diaries and journals (1833-1905), albums, legal and financial papers,
photographs, genealogical and biographical materials, and miscellaneous memorabilia of the Lamb, Booth, Miller, and related
families primarily of Delaware County, Pa. Includes correspondence of Sarah B. Miller while she was travelling in Europe in
1846, William and Elizabeth M. Booth, 1833-1882, Sarah B. Flitcraft, 1856-1917, Isaac L. and Clara B. Miller, 1862-1916, George
M. and Ellen M. Booth, 1864-1914, Robert E. and Elizabeth B. Lamb, James G. Lamb, 1917 - 1963, and others. Also of interest
are the European travel journals of Sarah L. Miller (1846) and Isaac L. and Clara B. Miller (1901,1904,1905), and the diaries
of William Booth (1833-39, 1843-44), Sarah B. Flitcraft (1863, 1864, 1866, 1868), and George M. and Ellen M. Booth (1869,
1873, 1876). There is also a good deal of genealogical and biographical material on the Lamb, Booth, and Miller families,
including marriage and death certificates, as well as legal documents, photographs, clippings, and miscellaneous materials.

Arrangement

Arrangement
The collection is divided into eight series:

Biographical and genealogical (arranged alphabetically by family name)

Correspondence (arranged by the correspondent)

Diaries (arranged chronologically

Writings

Albums

Legal and financial papers

Pictures

Clippings, including our obituaries

Miscellaneous

Added entries

Subjects

Albums

Booth family

Delaware County (Pa.) -- Genealogy.

Delaware County (Pa.) -- Social life and customs

Diaries

Lamb family

Miller family

Quakers -- Pennsylvania

Quakers -- Social life and customs

Quakers РDiaries

Additional Authors and Contributors

Booth, Elizabeth M. (Elizabeth Martin), 1816-1882

Booth, Ellen M. (Ellen Miller), 1853-1929

Booth, George M. (George Martin), 1851-1918

Booth, William, 1812-1877

Flitcraft, Sarah B. (Sarah Booth), 1841-1917

Lamb, Elizabeth B. (Elizabeth Booth), 1882-1966

Lamb, James G. (James Gibson), 1889-1969.

Lamb, Robert E. (Robert Emerson), 1881-1959.

Miller, Clara B. (Clara Booth), 1843-1919

Miller, Isaac L. (Isaac Levis), 1845-1913

Miller, Sarah L. (Sarah Levis), 1803-1890.

Swarthmore College

Credits

Processed by:

Finding Aid Prepared by FHL staff

Date:

1983

Restrictions:

Use Restrictions
Copyright has not been assigned to Friends Historical Library All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in to the Director. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Friends Historical Library as the owner
of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained
by reader.

Sponsor:

Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections
Libraries

Inventory

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Notes

Note to Researchers: To request materials, please note both the location and box numbers shown below:

Ser. 1. Biographical and genealogical material, 1702-1966, n.d.

Booth family, 1811-1896, n.d.:

Marriage certificates, some removed to Marriages, 1811-1876

George M. Booth and Ellen Miller

29 Nov. 1876

Box 1

William Booth and Elizabeth M. Broomall

4 Feb. 1841

Box 1

Joseph Booth and Martha Hoskins

2 Jun. 1811

Box 1

Clara (Booth) Miller's reminiscences of the Booth Family

(manuscript)

Box 1

Typescript copy of the reminiscences

Box 1

Booth Genealogy, by Clara B. Miller

1896

(bound typescript)

Box 1

Genealogical chart, tracing back from George Martin Booth and his wife, Ellen Miller

Removed to oversize.

(large, fan-type)

Box 1

Broomall family: Memorial of John M. Broomall

6/15/1894

Box 1

Deacon and Pancoast families, 1894-1894:

Box 1

Letter from Howard Deacon

Concerning Deacon family of NJ, and Pancoast family.

1894, 1895

Box 1

Typed brief records of the Pancoast family, by Gilbert Cope

Box 1

Flitcraft family: Typed account of Allen Flitcraft's parents and children

Letters in connection with his book about the Lamb family, published in 1962.

1917-1963

Box 2, folder 14

Ser. 3. Diaries, 1833-1905

Arranged chronologically.

Booth, William (1812-1887), personal diaries

1833-1839, 1843-1844

Box 3

Miller, Sarah L. (1803-1890), travel diaries

Diaries about travel to Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, France, Germany, Belgium, and England. These diaries were marked for
FHL by Mary M.(Hawley) Thompson, Class of 1889 at the College, who died 11 Sept. 1940, in Media.

1846

(small leather notebooks, later ms. transcriptions)

Box 3

Flitcraft, Sarah (Booth) (1841-1917), Journals

Concerning aspects of her daily life, and mentioning the assassination of Lincoln in 1864

Journal of trip to Ireland, Scotland, England, Holland, Belgium, and Germany, accompanied by their daughter, Elizabeth B.
Miller and her friend, Caroline F. Comly, both graduates of Swarthmore College, who planned to continue their studies at the
University in Berlin.

Jouranl of trip spent visiting the areas of England and Wales where their ancestors had lived

Aug. 5 to late Sept. 1905

Box 4

Ser. 4. Writings, 1821-ca. 1920

Poems and speeches by George M. Booth

1861-1914

Box 4

Poems and speeches by other family members

Box 4

Thesis by Elizabeth Martin Booth, presented for the B.A. degree at Swarthmore College, on Mary Stuart

1903

Box 4

Family Reminiscences, by Clara B. Miller

1918

Box 4

Hicksite Friends, by Robert E. Lamb

ca. 1920

Box 4

Ser. 5. Albums, 1688-1864

Commonplace book of John Miller, father of Henry Miller

dated 1688

Box 5

Autograph books, 1819-1828

Sarah L. Miller

1819

Box 5

Ann Mc Ilvain

1825

Box 5

Susan Roberts

1848

Box 5

Scrapbook of Clara B. Miller

n.d.

Box 5

Scrapbook of Clara B. Miller

n.d.

Box 6

Commonplace book of Sarah Miller Walker (1799-1874) (

Sarah Miller Walker was the unmarried daughter of Enoch and Phebe (Miller) Walker, and niece of George and Mary (Levis) Miller.
She lived at Woodburne, near Montrose, in Susquehanna Co., with her unmarried brother, George Walker, and belonged to Stroudsburg
MM.

1820-1864

Box 7

Scrapbook of Elizabeth Martin (Broomall) Booth (1816-1882)

Of newspaper clippings pasted over the account book of the sloop Jonas Preston, which had been owned and operated by her husband,
William Booth, in partnership with John Larkin in a coal, lumber, and packet business carrying goods between Chester and Philadelphia,
1847-1850.

Box 7

Scrapbook of Sarah B. Flitcraft

With clippings saved by her and pasted in after her death in 1917 by her sister, Clara B. Miller.

Box 7

Scrapbook of Sarah Levis Miller (1847-1894)

Sarah was the daughter of Levis and Ann Miller. The scrapbook is filed in oversize chart case.

Box 7

Ser. 6. Legal and financial papers, 1693-1873

Wills and estate administrations, 1693-1873:

Box 7

Will of Pearce Lamb

1709

(certified copy)

Box 7

Will of Thomas Hulbert of Philadelphia, leaving two tracts of land in Bethel and Chichester Townships

8 Oct. 1710

Box 7

Abstract of will of Griffith Owen

15 Mar. 1717

Box 7

Will of Francis Lamb

1765

(certified copy)

Box 7

Estate of Caleb Eyre

16 Dec. 1806

Box 7

Probate of will of John Talbot,

29 Jun. 1821

Box 7

Will of Mary Moore, mother of Hannah (Moore) Miller

21 Jun. 1848

Box 7

Estate inventory of John Miller

9 Apr. 1856

Box 7

Will of Hannah (Moore) Miller, mother of Isaac L. Miller

1883

(copy)

Box 7

Will of William Booth

William Booth died Nov 1st, 1877

dated 27 Sept. 1873

(copy)

Box 7

Copy of verbal will of Elizabeth M. (Broomall) Booth

As told to her children before her death on 14 Jan. 1882.

Box 7

Description of the laying out of the course of the road from Grubb's Mill in Willistown to Chester (later called Providence
Road and Route 252)

May 1732

(ms. copy)

Box 7

Land grants to Pearce Lamb of Cecil Co., MD

1683 and 1694

(negative photostats)

Box 7

Mortgages and indentures, 1763-1849:

Indenture of William Clayton, Jr., of Chichester, as apprentice to William Hawley of Chester, carpenter

19 Oct. 1763

Box 7

Mortgage of Joseph Talbot to Jonas Preston, on property in Upper Chichester Township,

Land to be conveyed to John Talbot, son of Joseph Talbot

24 Oct. 1763

Box 7

Indenture, Benjamin and Jemima (Booth) Townsend of Upper Chichester to Sarah (Davis) Reynolds, widow of Henry Reynolds, and her children

Ffor two tracts of land along Naaman's Creek. Filed in oversize chart case.

19 Mar. 1785

Box 7

Mortgage obligation of George Pearson of Ridley Township, miller, to John Talbot of Upper Chichester

For a grist mill and saw mill belonging to Talbot in Chichester Township. Also receipt bearing date of 22 Mar. 1798, from
John Talbot to George Pearson.

25 Jan. 1794

Box 7

Mortgage obligation of John Broomall to John Talbot, for two tracts of land in Upper Chichester Township

14 Apr. 1808

Box 7

Indenture between William and Elizabeth M. Booth of Chester and Henry N. Garrett of Philadelphia for land on Allegheny Ave.,
Philadelphia

24 Dec. 1870

Box 7

Land survey done for Joseph Talbot and John Talbot

n.d., 1802 (respectively)

Box 7

Two manumissions of slaves

One by Thomas Dick of Chichester, 13 Mar, 1787, and the other by Ralph Robinson on behalf of his mother-in- law, Mary Cannon,
of Northwest Fork Hundred, Sussex Co., Delaware, 2 Aug. 1798. John Talbot appears to have been involved in these transactions,
perhaps on behalf of Chichester Meeting.

1787, 1798

Box 7

Agreement of sale and other papers in connection with the purchase of a lot on Nippon Street, Germantown, Philadelphia, by Robert E. Lamb

1915-16

Box 7

Papers concerning the disposition of the land and building of the Henry Co., Iowa, Institute of Science

The Institute was founded and built by George Miller (1797-1869), who died unmarried in Trenton, Henry Co. He was a son of
George and Mary (Levis) Miller, and brother of John and Levis Miller. After his death his relatives in Delaware Co., PA, deeded
over the building and land to the Iowa managers of the Institute for use as a library. Later, in 1956, the Delaware Co. heirs
sold the building to an American Legion post. Includes accounts and receipts, 1812, 1816, and 1849.

1812, 1816, 1849

Box 7

Ser. 7. Photographs, arranged by family

Booth

Box 8

Lamb

Box 8

Miller

Box 8

Roberts

Box 8

Trainer

Box 8

Family coats-of-arms, Massey and Miller

Box 8

Ser. 8. Miscellaneous, 1792-1894, n.d.

Memorabilia of Sarah B. Flitcraft

Box 9

Memorabilia of George Miller (1772-1849)

Box 9

Memorabilia of Elizabeth M. Booth

Box 9

Memorabilia of Clara B. Miller and Isaac L. Miller

Includes a small New Testament he carried during the Civil War.

Box 9

Memorabilia of Ellen (Miller) Booth

Box 9

Memorabilia of Elizabeth (Booth) Lamb

Box 9

Wallet of Levis Miller, Sr., and its contents

Box 9

Papers concerning Levis Miller Jr.

Levis Miller, Jr., was captured and died in a Confederate prison camp during the Civil War, 1864.

Box 9

Petition to Thomas Mifflin, Governor of Pennsylvania, signed by Isaac Levis

Oct. 1792

(ms. copy)

Box 9

Memorial service of Sarah Miller Walker (1799-1874)

[1894]

Box 9

List of books kept by FHL and cataloged separately

With photocopies of all title pages. Books mostly belonged to George and Phebe (Massey) Miller.

Mar. 1984

Box 10

Title pages (photocopies) of books returned to the donors, or put on FHL duplicate shelves

Box 10

List of books in the library of Elizabeth (Booth) Lamb

Box 10

Large newspaper sheet with patriotic songs (words) printed on both sides